Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-14


through this occasionally during the win
ter force. water. The water is then made
10 reach and run through the earth below
without wettlng the leaves and stalks,
which should not be done when packed
Tor keeping.
summer lettuce is usually grown be-
tween the rows of celery, eeed onions,
horse radIsh and other late crops, and
often sells so low as hardly 10 pay the
cost Of washing and carting to market.
ell sometimes, especially when wanted
Ia New York. it sells high enough to be
one OF the most profitable crops grown.
have sometimes seen $500 or 500 taken
from very small patch under such CIR
cumstauces, but such accidents do not
occur often enough to place much de-
pendence upon them.
1t Is a good plan to grow natural
peach orchard, and the best way is 10 get
land ready this month aud properly work.
ed up, and at each crossing where trees
are TO come plant two or three pits this
fall, and when they come up in the spring
pail out all hut ono of them. We advise
all who are intending to plant any Kind
OF small fruit on sod lald next spring to
be sure and plow the ground this fall
leaving it without dragging. The grubs
that such land is infested with will then
not survive the winter.
An interesting experiment showing the
influence Of electricity on the growth OF
roots has been made IN Germany by Prof.
Holdeheiss. Plates OF copper were TN ust
upright into the earth and connected 10y
wires with similarly placed zinc plates
about 100 feet distant, an electric battery
being thus formed, with tho earth between
the copper and emo in the circuit. Both
potatoes and beets planted between such
plates gave an increased yield-beets ID
per cent, potatoes % per cent.--as COM
pared with other parts OF the same tlsld.
1t is said that raw hone has been pr owed
by analysis 10 contain every part OF an
eGg-white, yelk, and of course shell. it
should be constantly kept in special
place in the pen or apartment of laying
hens, as they will consume large quonti-
ties OF IL, and 1t goes chiefly TO egg-pro-
duction. Granulated Is the best form In
which to place it before adult fowls, and
in this shape II keeps fresh longer than
when ground into meal. Bono is one OF
the principal ingredients in the compost
ton of most oil the "egg foods" in the
market.
c. j. Herren, OF West Point. Tenn,
writes 10 the Home and Farm as follows:
Permit me, for the benefit OF those who
are plagued wiTh hog cholera, to publish
tHIOQku 1OAL pSt IClnSly bluI VIII
cure: Take large pot or kettle; ill it
with chopped up polk root anG wafer,
boil 1t one-half day TO make it strong;
take out the root and then thicken with
cornmea1, and give each hog one pint
two or three times per day for = few days;
then 1T Will be all well with them. They
will eat corn il they had refused il a few
days. write from experience, not from
hearsay.
Ii we'll laid, stone drain should last
| as long as one OF tile. II "A considerable
amount of stone is used and there is q
good outlet stone drain will never fill
up so that some water will not pass
through 1t. Too great fall or too large
an amount OF water are each apt to dis
place stones. Hence attempts to make
the stone in the form Of an arch often tall
One side or the other is liable to be dis
| placed. and presently a stone il pushed
into the channel. Earth accumulates
around this ard the efficiency OF the drain
is impaired. Tile set In a ditch just wido
enough 10 receive 1t cannot easily be dis
| placed.
Lettuce seed terminates quickly under
| favorable circumstances, but it will no,
come up if covered deeply, while II COW
cred lightly and hot, dry weather ensues
| 1t will require sprtnkling at least twice
or three times a day to bring 1t up. Once
up, II the lana is strong and well.ma-
nured. it will usually need no more wa.
| tering. The rows are sown IA inches
| apart and are titled with the shove hoe.
AS soon as the plants have four or five
leaves they should be thinned out so as
to give them eight or ten inches In the
row, otherwise the heads will crowd and
be small. The hands who do this seldom
leave enough space between the plants
without being frequently followed up.
Wherever the Mexican is, whether on
the prairie, forest, bottom or mountain,
be buries the stone OF every peach he eats.
The result is that peach trees are found
everywhere in that country. Itmakes no
difference where the Mexican may be he
stops and plants the seed. If on foot or
horseback, In stage or wagon, he keeps 1t
until he can plant 1t. 1t is his creed, his
religion, to help another. He plants, he
says, for the stranger. Why cannot we
do the same? A hole made by the thrust
of oaneor the foot, few handfuls OF
soil thrown over IL and the tree Will come.
II every one would follow this beautiful
custom what a country for fruit we would
have In few years. 1t is far better and
more humane to do this than to cast it
aside to be crushed by some passing hog.